![MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). Il Principe. -La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca. -Discretione del modo tenuto dal Duca Valentino ne l'ammazare Vitellozo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, il Signor Pagolo, & il Duca di Gravina Orsini. -I ritratti delle cose del la Francia. -Ritratti delle cose della Alamagna. Venice: [Zanetti?], 1537.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/CKS/1998_CKS_05974_0045_000(104441).jpg?w=1)
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MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). Il Principe. -La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca. -Discretione del modo tenuto dal Duca Valentino ne l'ammazare Vitellozo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, il Signor Pagolo, & il Duca di Gravina Orsini. -I ritratti delle cose del la Francia. -Ritratti delle cose della Alamagna. Venice: [Zanetti?], 1537.
8° (147 x 98mm). Italic type. Contemporary limp vellum, remains of 2 fore-edge ties, title written on spine. Provenance: inscription deleted from title and beginning of text.
Fifth edition of the foundation of 'the science of modern politics on the study of mankind' (PMM). Machiavelli's observations of Cesare Borgia laid the groundwork for his political philosophy, one of the most profoundly influential in the modern world. All of the first five editions of Il Principe are rare (Gerber cited two other copies); in 1540 The Aldine Press at Venice printed an edition which is substantially more common than the previous editions. The present edition is assigned to Zanetti on the basis of type and format; it is uniform with editions of the Discorsi and Historie published the same year. It derives from the improved, Giunta, edition of 1535, with Blado's first edition as the ultimate basis. Although Il Principe circulated in manuscript, the author's autograph does not survive. Bertelli & Innocenti, Bib. Machiavelliana 36; Gerber 5.
8° (147 x 98mm). Italic type. Contemporary limp vellum, remains of 2 fore-edge ties, title written on spine. Provenance: inscription deleted from title and beginning of text.
Fifth edition of the foundation of 'the science of modern politics on the study of mankind' (PMM). Machiavelli's observations of Cesare Borgia laid the groundwork for his political philosophy, one of the most profoundly influential in the modern world. All of the first five editions of Il Principe are rare (Gerber cited two other copies); in 1540 The Aldine Press at Venice printed an edition which is substantially more common than the previous editions. The present edition is assigned to Zanetti on the basis of type and format; it is uniform with editions of the Discorsi and Historie published the same year. It derives from the improved, Giunta, edition of 1535, with Blado's first edition as the ultimate basis. Although Il Principe circulated in manuscript, the author's autograph does not survive. Bertelli & Innocenti, Bib. Machiavelliana 36; Gerber 5.